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Ortega includes reflection on art as an integral part of his philosophical work. This is because his mission was to help import European high culture into Spain, where an absence of the fundamental fruits of enlightenment, science, and necessary public morals was clear. As for art, the third pillar of high culture, he believed that Spain was a teacher of Europe during modernity, and he intended to write on aesthetics focused on Spanish art for that high European culture. This is the objective of an early text (1910) where he aims to develop that aesthetics and opposes nationalism, because the object of art is not for particular human beings, but for “Adam in paradise” (Ortega 1983: I, 473ff.).
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Martín, J.S. (2009). José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955). In: Sepp, H., Embree, L. (eds) Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics. Contributions To Phenomenology, vol 59. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2471-8_48
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